Northeast Kansas Heritage Tour
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Northeast Kansas offers views
of rolling hills, woodlands, rivers, and creeks along with a number
of small- to medium-sized cities. You'll find a large variety
of sites to visit with topics such as dinosaurs, Native Americans,
the West, aviation, art, and science.
Towns are listed in alphabetical order, followed by information
on historical attractions. Use our button bar below to go to the
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Features include pre-historic exhibits, the days of the cattle drives,
and an 1885 pumper fire wagon. Visitors can ride a turn-of-the-century
Parker carousel, designated as a National Landmark.
Location: 412 S. Campbell
Telephone: 785-263-2681
The Dwight D. Eisenhower president library features his early years,
military career, presidency, and life with Mamie. The museum also offers
a gallery with changing exhibits.
Location: SE Fourth Street
Telephone: 785-263-4751
Features the breeding and racing of greyhounds as well as the history
of pari-mutuel betting.
Location: SE Fourth Street
Telephone: 785-263-3000
Exhibits on the history of Kansas sporting events and the state's greatest
athletes.
Location: 213 N. Broadway
Telephone: 785-263-7166
Old Abilene Town Museum
An 1887 railroad depot holds displays on the time of the cattle drives
and railroad development.
Location: 100 SE Sixth Street
Telephone: 785-263-4751
Seeyle Patent Medicine Museum
The Seeyle Mansion and Museum dates from early patent medicine days.
The medicine company boasted a line of 84 different products.
Location: 1105 N. Buckeye
Telephone: 785-263-1084
Wabaunsee County Historical Museum
An old stone bank holds displays on county history including a general
store, doctor's office, blacksmith shop, and barber shop.
Location: 227 Missouri
Telephone: 785-765-2200
 Atchison
Atchison County Historical Society Museum
Housed in the former depot, exhibits focus on local history including
on Amelia Earhart's childhood home and the development of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Location: 200 S. 10th
Telephone: 913-367-6238
Old Castle Museum
An 1858 three-story sandstone and limestone building houses a variety
of exhibits, features include an 1845 Seth Thomas weight clock, an 1895
bellows camera, and pioneer store equipment.
Location: 515 Fifth Street
Telephone: 785-594-6809
Quayle Bible Collection Museum
Featuring tablets, bibles, and various religions texts from around
the world, including cuneiform tablets and a cone from 2000 B.C., an
Egyptian papyrus fragment from 2000 B.C., and a 14th century synagogue
roll in Hebrew.
Location: Eighth and Fremont, Collins Library,
Baker University
Telephone: 785-594-6451
Clay County Historical Museum
Originally the local hospital, the 1925 red brick building houses a
variety of exhibits on local history including an operating and obstretric
room and an 1896 Regina music box.
Location: 2121 Seventh Street
Telephone: 785-632-3786
This beautiful stone building was an early mission for children of
the Kaw tribe. Located on the Santa Fe Trail, the surrounding town of
Council Grove was a favorite stopping place for travelers.
Location: 500 N. Mission Street
Telephone: 620-767-5410
1st Division Museum
World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Desert Storm exhibits highlight
the museum featuring the history of the Big Red One.
Location: Behind U.S. Cavalry Museum (see
listing below)
Telephone: 785-239-2743
The museum highlights the history of Kansas Territory's first capitol,
the site of the 1855 legislative session. Voted in during a fraudulent
election, the proslavery legislators and the laws they passed were soon
declared bogus.
Location: Via Huebner Road on Fort Riley
military reservation
Telephone: 785-784-5535
Buffalo soldiers, dragoons, and mounted riflemen are featured in the
museum covering the history of the U.S. Cavalry. the Mexican War,
Civil War, San Juan Hill, and World War I are among the time periods
covered in the museum with numerous artifacts, paintings, and dioramas.
Location: Building 205
Telephone: 785-239-2737
The historical Pony Express Station, which ran from 1860 until 1861,
appears much as it did during the time it served travelers along the
Oregon-California Trail. The new visitor's center provides a full-size
mural depicting life at the station; interactive exhibits on communications
from the pony express, telegraph, to computers; and transportation from
the nineteenth century. The visitor's center also includes a gift shop
featuring items related to the Kansas history.
Location: 2889 23rd Street
Telephone: 785-337-2635
This mission was established in 1845 by the Presybterian church to
house and educate the children of the Iowa and Sac & Fox.
Location: K-120 north from U.S.-36, turn
east on Mission Road
Junction
City
Geary County Historical Society Museum
County history is covered with exhibits on Native Americans who lived
in the area, train depot, and early twentieth century clothing.
Location: 530 N. Sixth Street
Telephone: 785-238-1666
Interactive exhibits include a chain reaction, a grocery store, a saltwater
aquarium with a tunnel for crawling underneath, dress-up area, and a
recycling center.
Location: 4601 State Avenue
Telephone: 913-287-8888
Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum
Exhibits often feature Kansas medical history through the use of both
historical artifacts and archival materials. One of the five largest
collections of rare and new medical books.
Location: University of Kansas Medical Center,
Rainbow and 39th
Telephone: 913-588-7244
Moses Grinter came to Kansas long before it was a territory. He earned
his livelihood by trading with the Native Americans and by operating
a ferry where the military road crosed the Kansas River. Here in the
1850s he and his wife, Annie, a Delaware Indian, built a fine new house
that echoed those he had know in his native Kentucky. Tours of the house
museum are available.
Location: 1420 South 78th Street
Telephone: 913-299-0373
The Museum features a changing exhibit gallery and the permanent exhibit
Seeking the Good Life, tracing the history and development of the county
from the 1820s to modern times. The 1950s All-Electric House is located
on the property and whether you're a child of the 50s or just curious
about lifestyles from this nostalgic era, the house offers an eye-opening
look at the lifestyles and technologies of the times.
Location: 6305 Lackman Road
Telephone: 913-631-6709
Located along a mail stop on the Santa Fe School, the schoolhouse features
living history experiences for students and visitors. The stone school
was built in 1869 and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. A Visitors Center houses an exhibit on one-room school education
and modern restroom facilities.
Location: 18745 S. Dillie Road, Edgerton
Telephone: 913-631-6709
Originally built in 1864 by a Swiss immigrant, the building was taken
apart and rebuilt in the city park.
Location: 14907 West 87th Street Parkway,
Lenexa
Telephone: 913-492-0038
The farmstead was the first stop for stagecoaches traveling form Westport,
Missouri, to the Santa Fe Trail. The 23-acre site is now on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Location: 1100 Kansas City Road
Telephone: 913-782-6972
The mission was established as a manual labor skills boarding school
for children of several Native American nations living in the area.
One of the three remaining buildings is among the oldest structures
in Kansas. The east building features exhibits on the themes of
Thomas Johnson, Indian agents and missionaries, Kansas settlement, Bleeding
Kansas, Overland trails, and the Civil War.
Location: 3403 West 53rd Street
Telephone: 913-262-0867
Science is the theme in exhibits on the electromagnetic spectrum, sound
waves, a computer fractal lab, and how composting works.
Location: 5705 Flint Street
Telephone: 913-268-8130
Wyandotte County Museum
Local history and prehistory is covered, including an exhibit on the
Hopewell Indians who lived in the area from 1 to 500 BCE.
Location: 631 N. 126th
Telephone: 913-721-1078
Elizabeth Watkins Community Museum
The 1888 former bank building houses exhibits on the history of the
county. The beginnings of basketball are featured with Dr. James
Naismith and Dr. Phog Allen, the history of Haskell Indian Nations University,
and local photography spanning 175 years.
Location: 1047 Massachusetts
Telephone: 785-841-4109
A parasauralophus greets visitors at the museum featuring an extensive
collection of species featuring dinosaurs, mammoths, and a large panorama
of North American plants and stuffed animals from arctic to desert climates.
the musem also features a store with products based on the exhibits.
Location: Dyche Hall, University of Kansas
Telephone: 785-864-4245
Eleven galleries representing much of the world's art history, both
Western and Asian. Works by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, John Singer
Sargent, and Georgia O'Keeffe are among the highlights.
Location: University of Kansas
Telephone: 785-864-4710
Wilcox Classical Museum
Replicas of famous sculptures are featured. An exhibit on marble
also is included.
Location: University of Kansas
Telephone: 785-864-3170
One of the finest collections of nineteenth century horse-drawn vehicles
highlights this musum covering the frontier army from 1817-1917 and
Fort Leavenworth 1827-Present. A carriage that carried Abraham
Lincoln during his visit to Leavenworth, Custer's horse sleigh, and
a 1917 Jenny biplane used to track Pancho Villa are among the many items
on exhibit.
Location: Reynolds and Gibbons streets
Telephone: 913-684-3191
A 1867 sixteen-room mansion houses the museum featuring county history.
Victorian clothing, a kitchen, and textiles are among the many exhibits.
Location: 1128 fifth Street
Telephone 913 682-7759
The site where the Lecompton Constitution was drafted imposing a proslavery
government on the antislavery majority in Kansas Territory. The
document's failure helped push the South toward withdrawing from the
Union. The site features first- and second-floor exhibits depicting
the convention at which the document was drafted and later history of
the building. A museum store also is included.
Location: 319 Elmore
Telephone: 785-887-6520
Lyndon
Osage County Historical Museum & Research Center
History of Osage County communities is highlighted with exhibits of
quilts, books, and photographs. Large county genealogy collection.
Location: 631 Topeka Avenue
Telephone: 785-828-3477
The home of Isaac Goodnow, who found the college that became Kansas
State University, and his wife Ellen features exhibits from the late
nineteenth century.
Location: 2301 Claflin Road
Telephone: 785-565-6490
Riley County Historical Museum
Exhibits on local and county history feature items used in daily life
during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Highlights include
early clothes-washing equipment and agriculture implements.
Location: 2309 Claflin Road
Telephone: 785-537-2210
Marysville
Courthouse Museum
Housed in the 1891 brick courthouse, the museum features the judges
bench and courtroom as it appeared in 1898, a primitive kitchen, and
an exhibit on local ghost towns.
Location: 1209 Broadway
Telephone: 785-562-5012
Pony Express Barn Museum
Contained in an original pony express barn and station, the museum
also features Native American artifacts and early farm equipment as
well as other displays.
Location: 106 S. Eighth Street
Telephone: 785-562-9874
No museums currenetly are listed for Oskaloosa.
No museums currenetly are listed for Osage City.
Paola
Exhibits on early Miami County and Paola businesses, schools, parks,
racetracks, hotels, opera houses, etc. Three 19th century buildings.
Location: 12 East Peoria
Telephone: 913-294-4940
Nemaha County Museum
Housed in a two-story brick building, the museum features early twentieth
century furnishings, exhibits on the jail, a doctor's office, and post
office.
Location: Sixth Street
Telephone: 785-336-6366
Military aircraft featuring a Jenny biplane, T-28 Trojan, F-7F Blue
Angel, MiG 17, Huey helicopter, C-47, EC 121 Connie, and restoration
work on other aircraft.
Location: Hangar 602, Forbes Field
Telephone: 785-862-3303
More than 22,000 square feet of exhibits in the Main and Special Galleries
and tell the story of Kansas from prehistoric times to the recent past.
Hightlights include an 1880 locomotive, full-size reproductions of a
Southern Cheyenne tipi and a Wichita grasslodge, and exhibits on Bleeding
Kansas and the Civil War. The Museum Store offers collectible items
and gifts relating to Kansas history.
Location: 6425 SW 6th Avenue
Telephone: 785-272-8681
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Learn the fascinating story of John Steuart Curry's murals, see the
spectacular chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
gaze upward to view the marble and the glass panels of the dramatic
Capitol dome.
Location: Exit 362B on I-70, follow the
signs
10th and Jackson
Dome Tours: Find hours and description
Historic Tours: Find hours and description
Telephone: 785-296-3966
Admission:Free
Mulvane Art Museum
Featuring contemporary mountain and plains area art with regionalism,
American modernism, and Kansas artists.
Location: 1700 Jewell, Washburn University
Telephone: 785-295-6324
Decorative arts museum housed in an 1895 building to display 1893 Chicago
World's Fair paintings.
Location: 521 Lincoln
Telephone: 785-456-2029
No museums are currently listed for Waterville.
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to confirm hours, admission,
and holiday schedules. To request that your museum be added to this
listing, contact our webmaster.
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Museums page for more sites around the state.
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